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Our first AI in Design 2026 case study is live, featuring @sierraplatform! Sierra’s design team is only handful of people (though growing quickly) supporting an engineering org of 100+! They’ve had to be extremely thoughtful about how they work with an eng org of that size... At first with AI, it was easy to fix every design nit themselves. Now they focus on creating the systems and components for the whole org while having a clear POV on where to sweat the details by hand (e.g. spending two hours getting a 16-pixel icon right... watch to see why) “If we can touch production code and the systems more easily with stuff like Claude or Cursor, what is a designer’s role in trying to empower at scale? Instead of doing one little pixel at a time, we should build the infrastructure that engineers use to create new features.” We talked to @wwayneee and @nickhiotis about: - The advantages of a small design team - Compressing "cook, prototype, be wrong, go back" cycle into a few hours - The "51st engineer" trap: why fixing every design nit yourself doesn't scale - Bringing back the joy of designing by doing some things by hand

@wwayneee @avamadethat 👋😂

@avamadethat Unfortunately this is what they look like @nickhiotis who designed the figma one 🍬

I want to be the person who designs these fun little guys Like yesssss let me drag and drop

The 2026 State of AI in Design Report answers the question of “what is happening” with AI + Design. Soon we’ll begin releasing case studies from top teams that will better answer the question of “given this info, how do we now do our work??” Get ready...

@RobertJBye @figma Can I use this slide deck as my portfolio

Figma Slides is now in the @figma mobile app! You can view decks, respond to comments, and leave feedback from anywhere. So get outside, and touch some grass 🌞 Download it for iOS & Android at figma.com/downloads

@RobertJBye @DevinLewtan hahaha

@DevinLewtan @nickhiotis

trying something... tag someone named Nick who lives in San Francisco

@RobertJBye Tag me you coward!

Designer: I love working with design centric PMs! Me - a design centric PM: I have some ideas! Can you give me Figma edit access? Designer:

@RobertJBye ...

Our designer is on parental leave for the next few months. And that means I get to dabble in design work 😏

@emiliakathleen Omg haha

hey cute shoes @nickhiotis #Config2023

@manosaie @RobertJBye @davidhoang 😂

@RobertJBye @davidhoang @nickhiotis 👀 Come get your mans

10,000+ Designers going to overthrow Product Management after Brian Chesky’s endnote chat at #Config2023

@emiliakathleen @teganmierle I'd be down! 👋

@teganmierle canadian reunion?? @nickhiotis

who’s heading to config this year 👀

@RobertJBye @figma 🙇🏻‍♂️

New little update from @nickhiotis and the @figma desktop team. Making installing our desktop app that bit easier. Get it here figma.com/downloads

@RobertJBye @neversitdull 😂😭

@neversitdull Cc @nickhiotis 🤪

Can we just bring back Path?

@nlevin @BrendanOde Lol so good

@BrendanOde cc @nickhiotis

Maya Rudolph is a comedic genius

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

@RobertJBye @disco_lu Hah no way. I can't even remember where we landed either 😂

@disco_lu @nickhiotis In a meeting I asked Nick ‘what do we call this lil things’ 😆

Wednesday has arrived, and that means it's time for... Name that component 🎤 What would you call this/these?

@RobertJBye I definitely debated using the word hiatus instead of break

@nickhiotis Nick Hiatus?

Back after an almost 8 year long Twitter break.. What I miss? Can we edit tweets yet?